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Visit the Stony Brook University website. Stony Brook University serves as the academic base affiliated with the Turkana Basin Institute. It provides facilities and support for lecture series, symposia, outreach, and fundraising activities; an academic home for graduate and postdoctoral students from both America and Africa; and Internet library access for the research centers at [...]

Dr. Richard Leakey Since I first began my career in the study of human evolution I have been continually impressed by the tremendous public interest that exists for the subject. I have enjoyed the chance to lecture to large audiences all over the world. Wherever I have spoken I have found the same [...]

In 2005, Richard Leakey outlined to Stony Brook his concept for an institute that could provide the permanent infrastructure to enable year-round research in this remote area of sub-Saharan Africa. The University enthusiastically endorsed the idea of TBI, committing funds for the Stony Brook end of the project. Additional fundraising began in 2006; construction of [...]

Donate to the Turkana Basin Institute The Turkana Basin Institute has come an incredibly long way in a relatively short period of time. Phase I of our development required raising funds to build and equip a temporary facility at Ileret that would support year-round field research and community projects, to locate a suitable [...]

Due to increasing popularity, Turkana Basin Institute Field Schools has launched its own website. Please visit KenyaStudyAbroad.org for the latest information on our programs, including: Our popular Origins Semester Abroad Program Our Origins Summer Program Our NEW Academic Safari for instructors, educators, museum staff, and other academic professionals Our NEW Global Innovation Field School How to [...]

Field trips, lab exercises, and lectures throughout the Field Education Program will include the following: Field transects & landscape mapping Comparison of modern and prehistoric flora and fauna Hands-on experience with fossil prospecting, identification, and taphonomy Learning techniques of paleoenvironmental reconstruction Practical training in archaeological and paleontological survey and excavation techniques Field trips to important [...]

You'll be based out of TBI's research facilities, located in the beautiful landscape surrounding Lake Turkana. Our facilities are fully equipped with laboratories, teaching area, comfortable accommodation and dining area. There is limited cell phone and internet connectivity on campus.